The Australian government has reportedly banned Chinese company Huawei from tendering for National Broadband Network contracts.

On Saturday, the Australian Financial Review quoted sources saying that Huawei had been told late last year not to bother tendering for any NBN supply contracts because the company would not succeed.

"The National Broadband Network (NBN) is the largest nation-building project in Australian history, and it will become the backbone of Australia's information infrastructure," the attorney general's office said in a statement issued to ZDNet Australia. "As such, and as a strategic and significant government investment, we have a responsibility to do our utmost to protect its integrity and that of the information carried on it."

Suzanne Tindal cut her teeth at ZDNet.com.au as the site's telecommunications reporter, a role that saw her break some of the biggest stories associated with the National Broadband Network process. She then turned her attention to all matters in government and corporate ICT circles. Now she's taking on the whole gamut as news editor for t...
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